Calley Anderson

If Tuesday night was a testament to anything, it was to how much of a gift it is to be literally surrounded by those that affirm you. Living and ancestral. Theater makers and family & friends. Phenomenal actors and a one-of-one creative/production team.

Thank you to Aaron and the Fault Line team for uplifting me and my work so ardently over the past few years, culminating in a night I’ll never forget. Thank you to the incomparable Dominique Rider—the only director I could have gone on this journey with and who lifted this play to its highest heights. Thank you to actors who trusted, questioned, and pushed this play (and me) forward in ways I couldn’t have imagined. Talented doesn’t even begin to cover it. Thank you to my family for showing up and showing out in force as always. Thank you to every single person that made the Ivy, 1859 experience something electric, ephemeral, and alive. You made a packed house feel all the more infinite.

What an incredible start to what I hope is a much longer path with this play 🥹